I'll go for it.  Bailey has been incredibly clutch this year, and statistically, he's one of the best kickers in the country.  I still think Colt deserves some kind of recognition for taking all the abuse (physical and emotional) that we and the opposing defensive lineman have heaped on him throughout the year, and still managed not to give up and help lead a comeback for the past two straight weeks.  Bailey is probably the most trustworthy kicker I can remember, though.  Who thought Pino would have made both the NU kick last year and the OSU kick this year?  Either?  Texas has ridden Bailey to something like 22 points (?) against UCF, and has he only missed like 2 or 3 field goals?  Geez, I love this whole Texas team.  We're playing exciting football, and I love to watch them work magic when the chips are down.

Stats of players currently ranked in top 100 by CFBstats.com. National rank in parentheses.

Jamaal Charles: 1192 yds (10), 6.24 ypc (27) 119.2 ypg (19), 14 TD (t-6), 84 pts (t-24), 8.4 ppg (t-41), 129.9 all-purpose ypg (53)

Colt McCoy: 65.7 completion % (19), 2632 yds (13), 8.0 yp attempt (t-16), 263.2 ypg (21), 16 TD (32), 138.64 efficiency (30), 296.5 total ypg (18)

Vondrell McGee: 6 TD (t-69)

Nate Jones: 57 receptions (t-27), 628 yds (t-64), 62.8 ypg (t-91)

Quan Cosby: 50 receptions (t-52), 8.81 punt return avg (t-53), 23.30 kickoff return avg (t-76), 135.9 all-purpose ypg (39)

Ryan Bailey: 15 FG made (t-18), 78.9% made (t-33), 40 PAT made (t-16), 85 pts (t-21), 8.5 ppg (t-39)

Frank Okam: 4.5 sacks (t-88), 46 sack yards lost (t-31), 49 TFL yards lost (t-61)

Lamarr Houston: 51 sack yards lost (t-25), 9 TFL (t-80), 63 TFL yards lost (t-25)

Marcus Griffin: 91 INT yards (31), 1 INT TD (t-9)

Brandon Foster: 72 INT yards (51), 2 INT TD (t-2), 10 pass defended (t-41), 8 pass broken up (t-29)

Ryan Palmer: 9 pass defended (t-56), 9 pass broken up (t-22)

Notable: no leaders in yards per reception, no punt or kickoff returns for TDs, no leaders in tackles, no kicks/punts blocked

has my vote, although McCoy squeaks in as a CLOSE second.

Even though Charles has had a couple of insane 4th quarters recently, and even though he's fast, I cannot vote for him, considering his myriad fumbling problems for the entire first half of our season and his earlier problems hitting the holes.

Charles has been more frustrating than exciting this year.

McCoy has been sorta equally frustrating and exciting.

Bailey, on the other hand--ZERO frustration!

Easy vote.

if the game is won/lost on the offensive line (especially considering our need for JC's late-game heroics to come back against NU and OSU), then chris hall gets my vote.  he's the swiss army knife of our o-linesmen.  plug-n-play.  one-size-fits-all.  etc.

though i wish it were.

John Chiles? Are you kidding? I put him in there as a joke along with Killebrew and Melton. This isn't a "predict the 2009 MVP" poll. Silly rabbit.

While I get all the love for Ryan Bailey, and it's arguable that Texas would have lost a couple of games without his accuracy, I have to vote for Jamaal Charles. Yes he fumbled against UCF and Oklahoma and the Oklahoma one might have cost us that game. Yes he seemed like he would rather disco than run early in the season. But...without him, Texas would have lost more games. Why, you say? Because he is THE explosive threat (No, I haven't forgotten Jermichael Finley and Jordan Shipley) that dictates what defenses do. All those smothering run blitzes Colt and the coaches keep complaining about? Teams know that if they read and react, JC will just run by them 3 or 4 times a game and that would be all she wrote. Without JC's take-it-to-the-house speed, there is no way we come back on Nebraska or Oklahoma State. His long TD run broke the back of TCU, and a similar run really was the final difference in the UCF game. Oklahoma would have put Colt in the hospital, which they almost did once the threat of the run went away in that game. Our worst game of the season was K State, in which WE DIDN'T GIVE THE @#$%^ BALL to Charles in the second half.
Teams are so afraid of his speed that they are gambling everything on pressure on the backfield. Why else would Nebraska blitz on 80% of plays and have no safeties back on Charles' big runs in the fourth quarter? Without that threat, teams could stunt and twist their defensive linemen on pass rushes and sit the safeties back in coverage, forcing Texas to nickel and dime their way down the field with the pass. We've seen what happens when the Horns rely on that too much.
I predict that Charles will have 100+ rushing yards in both games and have nearly 1500 yards rushing by the end of the year. I think he will make at least one long (> 40 yards) TD run, and probably more, in each game. They may not be the final scores of the games, but they will be either momentum turners or backbreakers. While McCoy may be the glue, and Bailey is "money," Charles is the engine. MVP.